Remember a few years back, we were so close buying decommissioned Type 23 frigates from UK (We had lengthy discussions here at the forum)?
Guess how and where those vessels ended up. Irony big way!
Kozan Erkan:
“HMS Montrose set off today from Aliaga to be scrapped; a few years ago, when England tried to sell these ships to us as second-hand warships, one of our admirals who was not on duty at the time had tried to shape public opinion by saying, "Whatever a bullet to the Mehmetçik is, a ship is to the Navy, let's take them," in support of adding the ships to the inventory.
Now, those who couldn't see back then that Turkey no longer needs someone else's scrap should stop and think a bit.
Have confidence in yourselves—at that time, dear Arda MEvlütoğlu and I worked very hard against acquiring them. Now we're enjoying the pleasure of watching dozens of ships being built at the same time.”
Two Turkish naval vessels conduct training exercises in Indian Ocean while deploying to Somalia, Türkiye’s National Defense Ministry says
'TCG Kemalreis and TCG Yzb. Gungor Durmus, which are deploying to Somalia as part of the Somali Naval Task Group activities, conducted training exercises in the Indian Ocean' http://v.aa.com.tr/4055498
